Improvement in frtjning-shears



ithttell tair gettati dlire.

'JOHN sHEHAN, or MMA; INDIANA, AssIeNon To HIMsELF, GEORGE! W. EpenooMB,` AND 'rHoMAs J; BULL.

Letters Pfl-tent No. 97,973, dated December 14, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN PRTJ'NINC-v-SI-IEARS.

` The Schedule referred to in these L'ett plenreut.'

Like letters of reference refer to like parts.

The nature'of my invention consists in jointing one lever of a snitably-tbrmed pair of shears to the end df astraight bar or' handle of any desired length, and connecting the other level-of the shears to the abovenientioned bar by means of straps, in such a 'way that when the blades are placed open on a' limb, and the straight bar or handle to which the shears are attached is pulled, the shears are made to close.

I will proceed to describe my invention.

1n tig. 1`, A is a bar, whichis provided with a handle, B.

To the upper end of this bar, one lever O of the shearsD is jointed. The other lever lfl is connected, by

means of the straps F F, to the bar A at -G.

h h are `the cutting-blades of the shears, opening downward. i "Figg represents the levers (l E, straps' F F, and

ers Patent and lmaking part of the same.

. f bar A, in different position from g.1,bnt giving the saine result.

The operation is as follows: The blades 7i. h are placed open on alimb; the'handle B is pulled: As the levers C and E are brought down by means of the handleuB, the shears are closed, severing the limb.

The advantage which I claim for my invention is,

that the bar A may be of any length, mak-ing itmore -convenient to prune on long or high limbs; and also, as the implement has but one handle, it requires but one hand to work it.

The arrangement of the bar A, the levers C and E, and traps F F, gives a great le\ 'er-power; which makes i 'much easier to cnt o large limbs than wit-h other shears in use.

Vhat I claim is-new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, isi The arrangement and combination of the shears D,

bar A, and straps F F, as shown and described,and

for the purpose set forth.

i The abovespeeification of my invention signed by me, lthis 3d day of July, 1869.

- JOHN SHEHAN.

Vitnesses GEO. L. NICHOLS, l

MCKINLEY. 

